Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.Ĭhandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. Fine in About Fine dust jacket.Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. “…the appeal of 'Farewell, My Lovely' is in its toughness, which is extremely well done.” (Contemporary New York Times Review)īruccoli A2.1.a. The book was actually the first of Chandler’s novels to be made into a film, in 1942, as "The Falcon Takes Over." It was filmed again in 1944 as the critically acclaimed "Murder, My Sweet" and in 1975, in a version starring Robert Mitchum.
The plot was inspired by a number of short stories Chandler had written earlier, including "Mandarin's Jade", "The Man Who Liked Dogs", and “Try the Girl.” It follows Marlowe as he investigates the violent murder of a night club manager. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, "Farewell, My Lovely" was the second Philip Marlowe novel, published in 1940.
One of the finest crime novels ever written, by one of the inventors of the hard-boiled detective genre. Housed in a custom red morocco solander box by the Heritage Bindery, spine elaborately tooled in gilt.
Negligible rubbing to board edges, cloth bright, binding square, top edge unfaded, a Fine copy in just about Fine jacket, not price-clipped, a couple of tiny nicks to head of front panel and joints. Original pink cloth, titles to front board and spine in blue, top edge blue.
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